Conservation Week

This week is conservation week and Libby entered a writing competition on the doc website. Her work got published on the site and here is the link, so have a look!

Libby and Jakobs Why are our hands so important poster

Today we had to write and design a poster that showed why the human hand was so important to us. We learnt how to work well together as well as how many bones are in each finger and all the different things that we can do with our hands. It made us realize how amazing and useful our hands are in every day life. We used QR codes as a treasure hunt to find useful links for information and diagrams. We really enjoyed this project.

Libby's Bubble Boats

Marshmallow Maths

Today we were doing Marshmallow Maths, we were learning to read thermometers and estimate the temperature of water. We had to see what temperatures were the best for melting the marshmallows.

This is what you need...
Marshmallows,Water,Cups,Thermometer, a spoon and drinking chocolate.

What to do...
Fill your cup with water that is 75 to 40 degrees Celsius. Put in a tea spoon of drinking chocolate in and a Marshmallow. Wait until it has melted. You can time it and find all of the differences.
We found that the hottest water (75 degrees Celsisus) out of the Zip was the best for melted marshmallows.

It was a lot of fun and at the end we got a tasty treat!!!!

By Libby

Cloud in a Jar

Today we wanted to make a cloud in a Jar. Impossible you say. Well it's not!

To make a cloud in a Jar you will need...

- A Jar

- Matches

- Warm Water

- An ice pack

- A piece of black paper 

We put about one third of a cup of warm water into the jar. Then we lit a match, blew it out and dropped it in the water. We then quickly covered the top of the jar with the icepack for two minutes. We could see the cloud start to form in the jar. Then we released the ice pack and the cloud came out. the top! 

It was a lot of fun making clouds in a jar.

 

Minibeast Inquiry

Kakapo by Libby and Charlotte

Kakapo

 

Kakapo are the world’s biggest parrot and they live in New Zealand. There are only 120 left in the world so they are very rare.

Kakapo can’t fly so they eat juicy fruit off the forest floor. They eat fruit off Rimu trees.

Kakapo only have chicks when the Rimu tree fruits. The tree fruits only every two or three years. So this is a big problem.

I like kakapo because they can camouflage.

By Charlotte and Libby

 

Using the Digital Microscope

Today we used a digital microscope to take a closer look at some of the minibeasts we have been bringing in to the classroom.
We used 10x, 60x and 200x magnifications to look at the very fine detail on our minibeasts.

Here is a fly at 10x magnification, with closeups of the wing at 60x and 200x magnification:

Libby took these pictures of a honeybee wing at 60x and 200x magnification:

We also looked at a live spider at 10x magnification - he moved around a lot and was really interesting so we kept him under the microscope and he kept us company on the big screen while we did our maths and reading! Everyone liked it when we could see all his eyes looking back at us!

Have you used a microscope before? Does looking at a spider close-up make you feel shivery?!

Friday at Lee Stream

Today is a normal Friday at Lee Stream School.

We start off by marking our spelling and maths homework. When that is finished we do our handwriting. Today’s letter is Jj. When finished the year 7 and 8s do a personal project about an animal or person. When the rest of the class finish they go on mathletics.

At 10 to 10 the year 7 and 8s go to manual. Manual is when we go to Taieri School and learn about cooking, sewing and metal/wood work. 

After interval the rest of the school have discovery time. This is when they do creative learning using different materials and problem solving.

The year 7 and 8s get lunch at the Outram shop and return at lunch time. After lunch room1 play chess for about half an hour, then join up with the rest of the school and go to the library.  If we finish early we have a quick game to end the day.

I like Fridays because it is the end of the week and the days  learning is varied and kind of fun.

By Libby